Starmer Rival Streeting Prepares to Resign and Challenge Prime Minister: Report
Streeting is said to need 81 Labour MPs to launch a challenge after a 16-minute meeting with Starmer.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting is preparing to resign and trigger a Labour leadership contest as soon as Thursday, following a 16-minute crisis meeting with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday morning.
- Following last week's election disaster, more than 90 MPs have publicly called for the Prime Minister to resign or set a departure timetable, intensifying pressure on Starmer's authority.
- To trigger a formal contest, Streeting must secure nominations from 20% of the parliamentary party—81 MPs—while the TULO group of 11 affiliated unions warned Labour "cannot continue on its current path."
- Reports suggest Andy Burnham has a Commons seat "locked down," though Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds dismissed the turmoil, claiming Streeting and Starmer were simply "having a coffee."
- Allies told The Times that Streeting has made clear he is "going to go for it," with sources expecting him to resign Thursday despite ministers attempting to downplay infighting ahead of the King's Speech.
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